Transitional MovesFor BrenntagSteven Holland, currently COO ofBrenntag AG, a global specialist in chemi-cal distribution, will assume his new roleas CEO on June 22 following the com-pany’s general shareholders meeting. Thisdecision was made by Brenntag’s super-visory board. Holland replaces StephenClark, who will step down and be up forelection to the company’s supervisoryboard. Holland joined the company in 2006after the acquisition of Albion ChemicalDistribution Group, where he had beenCEO for eight years. In addition, WilliamFidler, president and CEO of Brenntag’sNorth American business, has joined themanagement board and will be respon-sible for the company’s North and LatinAmerican business.CAPSTONE TURBINE: CapstoneTurbine Corp., a provider of microtur-bine energy systems, has named RobertC. Gleason as its senior vice president,Program Management, which was effectiveApril 6. Capstone created the new position toaid with its cost-reduction programs, reliabil-ity improvement initiatives and Departmentof Energy (DOE) programs.Capstone has new product develop-ments under way, which include a flexiblefuel microturbine that runs on agriculturalsyngas, an externally fired solar poweredmicroturbine and an effort to increase theoutput of the C200 microturbine to 250 k Wand use the new C250 as part of a newmultistage C370 product.Before joining Capstone, Gleason spentmore than 17 years in program manage-ment, project engineering and businessdevelopment in high technology compa-nies such as Parker Hannifin and Aero-Motive Co.

GENREP: Genrep Ltd/Ltée announcedthat Rick Frise hasjoined the com-pany as managerof Rental Solutions.He will be respon-sible for the devel-opment of the rentalbusiness in GreaterToronto and sur-rounding areas. DonPoyntz has also joined the company asits power product specialist. He will beresponsible for promoting Genrep productand service offerings in Ontario (North ofBarrie), Canada.

R. FriseNew Managing Director ForKohler In AsiaKohler Co. announced that it has namedMichael Chng as its managing directorfor Kohler Power Systems-Asia Pacific,reporting to Jason Struthers, president– Kohler Power Systems. Chng has fulland development, sales, engineering, qual-ity, purchasing, inventory management,manufacturing, distribution and accountmanagement, along with customer supportand service. He will also drive businessimprovement initiatives, the company said.Prior to joining Kohler, Chng served asmanaging director for Astrid Electronics,where he was responsible for the start-up of the Singapore and Malaysia jointventures between EDPN Technologiesand Astrid Electronics, Italy. He alsoserved in general manager positions atboth of TAMCO Systems and InvensysEnergy Systems.